Flowscapes explores infrastructure as a type of landscape and landscape as a type of infrastructure. The hybridization of the two concepts seeks to redefine infrastructure beyond its strictly utilitarian definition, while allowing spatial design to gain operative force in territorial transformation processes. The publication provides perspectives on the subject from design-related disciplines such as architecture, urban design, urban planning, landscape architecture and civil engineering. The book builds upon the multidisciplinary colloquium on landscape infrastructures, that is part of the Flowscapes graduation design studio of Landscape Architecture at the TU Delft.

The authors explore concepts, methods and techniques for design-related research on landscape infrastructures. Their main objective is to engage environmental and societal issues by means of integrative and design oriented approaches. Through focusing on interdisciplinary design-related research of landscape infrastructures they provide important clues for the development of spatial armatures that can guide urban and rural development and have cultural and civic significance. The geographical context of the papers covers Europe, Africa, Asia and Northern America. All contributions in the book are double blind reviewed by experts in the field.

Building Better - Sustainable Architecture for Family Homes

Sofia Borges, Sven Ehmann, Robert Klanten, Hans Drexler

datum uitgave: 08/2014

uitgever: gestalten

tekst door DGJ

In the book, architects and homeowners work together to find unique and aesthetically compelling ways to build more sustainably. Melding client desires with real world pragmatism, these efficient homes present a diverse spectrum of solutions that include everything from state of the art climate control systems to ancient, passive, and renewable building techniques.

Affordable Living - Housing for everyone

Klaus Dömer, Hans Drexler, Joachim Schultz-Granberg

datum uitgave: 2014

uitgever: Jovis

tekst door DGJ

Housing is a basic need that is still not or not enough accessible for many of the people in all regions of the world. Architecture and urban planning can make a significant contribution in finding new solutions that can ensure proposed “Housing for all” offer. Above all, the challenge for affordable housing is to put living costs and the resultant living quality in an optimum ratio value. This challenge is dependent on many local parameters and cultural influences.

In this context, not only theoretical approaches are going to be presented in the book, but also on example of outstanding residential buildings, some strategies to create affordable housing. By means of project’s analysis in the economic, social and urban context, these strategies can be comparable.However still the main subject focus on question how can be these different approaches to create affordable Housing transferred into regional specifics.

Passive house refurbushment in Bonn

The architectsconsider the problembasically.For them, therestoration in the building stock is no physicalor technicalproblem,but a contributiontosustainable development of society.This house of the 1948 shows how an existing structurcan be used and howanapartment building withcommercial premises becomes an attractiveenergy termsTownhouse. The wooden staircase, for example, was protected and combined with new elements.

In the metropolitan areas are not enough apartments.WhileGermany'spopulationcontinues to shrink, urbanizationcontinues to increase.By the organicgrowth of thesecentersover the centurieseverywheresmallvacant lotsareactuallyavailable.The only question is: Canthere bealsoprovided living space.

Cadavre Exquis (pre-release 0.02)

"Dutch Architecture with Landscape Methods Vol. 3"

Matthew Skjonsberg, Daniel Jauslin e.a.

eerste publicatie in: 2012

datum uitgave: Apr 20 2012

uitgever: DGJDasGehtJa

tekst door DGJ

261 pagina's

Contemporary architecture is increasingly influenced by the concept of landscape, and this is particularly the case in the Netherlands. Like at many other places, a new mindset is emerging, transforming the core values of the disciplines of architecture and urbanism with the notion of the organization of architectural space as a landscape. Through experiment our lab develops methods to analyze such phenomena in focused studies of specific cases, understanding how architects use landscape not only as a metaphor but also as a method to design buildings.

32 students selected and analyzed outstanding built work of awide field of architects from four generations of Dutch practitionersstarting with Huig Maaskant (founder of the RAvB), Wim Quist, OMA,SANAA, Mecanoo, MVRDV, NOX, De Zwarte Hond, NL-Architects,Onyx, FACT and MonderschijnMoonen. Students drew and built modelsof their analyses, where four layers are detachable as a separateentity, and then played a game the surrealist called Cadavre Exquis.

The result is a dismantled floating olympic village for Rotterdam,which is exhibited at it’s site in the historic docklands RDM on theHeijplaat. This Book is the catalogue to the exhibition.

Please keep in mind that the suggested donation price is 4 EUR. You can donate at the opening in cash. We will set up donation online after the opening of the exhibition. If you donate for the digital pre-release you will get the digital full-release for free probably this summer.

Landscape Aesthetics for Sustainable Architecture (Book-Chapter in:)

"Aesthetics of Sustainable Architecture"

Daniel Jauslin

datum uitgave: Nov 17 2011

editor: Sang Lee

uitgever: 010

tekst door DGJ

10 pagina's

This book deals with the aesthetic potentials of sustainable archit
ecture and its practice. In contrast to the mechanistic model, the book attempts to open a new area of scholarship and debate on sustainability in the design and production of architecture. In many instances, the key principles behind environmental concerns and sustainability in architecture are often misunderstood and misrepresented. Many often consider sustainability within a limited set of choices or still regard it as yet another inconvenience that hinders development. Certainly technical improvements help alleviate the problems at hand. But fundamental questions remain in regard to architecture: What are the structural issues behind the consciousness on sustainability and how do we address them in design? And what kind of opportunities can we find in its aesthetics for the revision of our industrial model? The book traces and underscores how the consideration of environment and sustainability is directly connected to aesthetic propositions in architecture. http://www.010.nl/catalogue

The project Minimum Impact House is a prototype for sustainable housing development in the city. Sustainability and ecology requires a holistic optimization of the building. At the mini house manufacturing of the building, operation and location factors such as urbanity and mobility were considered together. It turned out to be an inner-city densification has a number of environmental advantages. Prevent urban sprawl, traffic, reduces the intensified use of existing infrastructure and strengthen the social fabric of the city. For developing inner-city African developing new building types and building structures for the creation of sustainable housing in the city is required.

The demand for passive houses has risen substantially in recent years. To meet the ever increasing cost of oil and electricity prices, many owners opt for an energy-efficient construction and save up to 90% on energy costs.

The new planning guide passive houses residential planning prepares you for this task well before, because selected project examples and detailed technical information to help you implement your own building project.

Take advantage of the design manual passive houses of residential buildings

Expertise for client consulting: The selected projects provide ideas for your own design. Concept variants and construction data to support the decisions. Safety in design: designs, details and concepts of the building can be incorporated into your own planning.

Towards A Sustainable Architecture

"Greenplattform - Art Ecology Sustainability"

Hans Drexler, Daniel Jauslin, Marc Guinand

datum uitgave: Apr 01 2009

editor: Franziska Nori

uitgever: Strozzina, Florenz

tekst door DGJ

english, 9 pagina's

Dealing with the issue of sustainability always implies the hope of improving the present conditions and of actively contributing to sustainable developement. An awareness of the complex relations involved the search for new possible solutions, and education, and training concerning the mutual interdependence of the various systems.

Basics Materials (English)

"Birkhäuser Basics"

Manfred Hegger (Autor), Hans Drexler (Autor), Martin Zeumer (Autor)

datum uitgave: Okt 06 2006

uitgever: Birkhauser Verlag AG

tekst door DGJ

german, english, 88 pagina's

The Materiality of buildings and constructions is an important aspect of architectural design. The approach to and use of materials is a fundamental building block of architectural training. The themes featured include: subjective effect of materials; haptic influences; use of materials; and creative use of classical construction materials.

Book of Abstracts sb 13 munich

Vast achievements in the field of sustainable building habe been made: A variety of targets, aspects and criteria habe been identified that constitute important building blocks of a comprehensive understanding of sustainability in the field of architecture. Assessments and evaluation systems have been developed that help to analyse designs and buildings. Still missing are strategies that could be used to integrate the targets in the design process. In a two year empirical research project concepts, strategies and methods for designing sustainable residential buildings habbe been gathered and analysed. Sustainable design is notmerely a technical problem, rather it can be most successful if it accomplishes to bridge the gap between the cultural role of architecture and its technical side. For this reason, the study focused on the design potential that could be derived from the following questions: . What are approaches and strategies to meet the diverse and sometimes divergent requirements of sustainability in architecture? . Waht methods and tools can be applied in the early stages of the design and planning process for new and existing buildings to be planned holistically in order to optimize the design in terms of sustainable construction? . What is the role the context(in the broadest possible sense of climatic, Structural, cultural and social context) plays in respect to the design? . What are the advantages and disadvantages arising from their implementation?